atom-transcribe

A simple tool that helps to play and control audio and video files for manual speech to text transcription.

mbroedl

418

3

0.5.1

MIT

GitHub

atom-transcribe

A simple audio and video player for atom to aid text transcription, interview transcription, or video transcription. Originally based on sdinesh86/atom-music.

Screencast of the program.

Functionality

Screenshot of the program with numbered functions.

num key function description
1 ctrl-1 large jump back (default: 10sec)
2 ctrl-2 short jump back (default: 2sec)
3 ctrl-space play/pause
4 ctrl-5 small jump forward (default: 2sec)
5 ctrl-6 large jump forward (default: 10sec)
6 ctrl-t insert timestamp (default: _[mm:ss.ms]_)
7 (click) jump to position
8 ctrl-3, ctrl-4 change playback speed
9 open file
10 (dblclick) jump to position jump to timestamp; a double click in text interpolates the time between the surrounding timestamps

Upon opening atom-transcribe, a fuzzy search guesses the audio file. Currently, ogg, mp3, wav, mp4, and mkv files in the current working folder are matched based on similarity of the opened file and the audio files.

Videos can also be loaded and played, while their visibility can be toggled.

Possible future features?